Health Game Intervention to Promote the Physical Activity of Early Adolescents

Physical Activity Clinical Trial

Official title:

Health Game Intervention to Promote the Physical Activity of Early Adolescents

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03279497
• Other study ID #: MoveF2017
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 5, 2017
• Last updated: October 24, 2017
• Start date: October 2017
• Est. completion date: January 2018

Study information

• Verified date: October 2017
• Source: University of Turku
• Contact: Anni Pakarinen, MHSc
• Phone: +358451213567
• Email: anni.pakarinen[@]utu.fi
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The study evaluates the effectiveness of the game-intervention in promotion of physical activity self-efficacy and physical activity behavior among early adolescents (10-13 year olds). Half of the study participants will receive the game-intervention and half of the study participants will receive a commercially available sport and fitness application for running, cycling and every-day training.

Description:

The study evaluates the effectiveness of the game-intervention in promotion of physical activity self-efficacy and physical activity behavior among early 10 to 13 years old adolescents. Participants allocated to the Health game intervention group will use a game called Movenator, during a four week intervention and participants allocated to the Sport and fitness-intervention group will use a commercially available Sport and fitness application for running, cycling and every-day training, during a four week intervention period.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 180
• Est. completion date: January 2018
• Est. primary completion date: January 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 10 Years to 13 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Goes to school at 4th, 5th or 6th grade

• Understands and can communicate either in Finnish

• Has daily access to a smart phone (Android) during free time

Exclusion Criteria:

• Physical activity impairments

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Health Behavior
• Physical Activity

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Health game
Participants allocated to the Health game intervention group get to use the health game during the four week intervention period and participants are allowed to use it on their free time.
• Sport and fitness application
Participants allocated to the Sport and fitness application intervention group get to use the sport and fitness application during the four week intervention period and participants are allowed to use it on their free time.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Finland	Primary schools (n=2)	Turku	Southwest Finland

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Turku

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Finland, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Physical activity behavior	Physical activity behavior is tracked with Actigraph wGT3X-BT accelerometer during one week period	at baseline during one week period and at 4 weeks during one week period
Secondary	Change in Physical activity self-efficacy	Measured with Physical Activity Self-Efficacy Scale (PASES), a 8-item 5-point Likert-scale.	At baseline and at 4 weeks
Secondary	Actual use of the intervention	Actual use of the intervention is tracked with log files	During the four week intervention
Secondary	Usability of the intervention	Measured with System Usability Scale (SUS), a 10-item 5-point Likert-scale	At 4 weeks